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Floods & storms, 1946

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Floods in U.S.A.

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 3

PHILADELPHIA, Monday: Swollen by incessant week-end rains the Pennsylvania rivers, which bad barely subsided from last week's…

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Critical Floods in Irak

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1946 · page 1

TEHERAN, Wednesday: The Euphrates and Tigris rivers have overflowed their banks and flooded over 1000 acres of…

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District Maize Farmers Depend Too Much on Floods Opinion Of Departmental Expert Value of Sorghum Grain

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 7

This week, Mr W. D. Kerle, well known agricultural expert from the Dept. of Agriculture, made a tour of the Gundagai District,…

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Bengal Flood Damage

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Wednesday (A.A.P.): The floods in Eastern Bengal are subsiding. They covered 600 square miles, caused nearly…

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Batlow Hit by Terrific Wind Storm Cyclone Unroofs Houses and Scatters Trees On Road

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 4

Roofs were torn from houses and trees stripped of their a cyclone struck the Batlow district on Saturday afternoon. The cyclone struck about four miles from Batlow and devastated an…

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Batlow Cyclone Houses Unroofed and Roads Blocked

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 1

Roofs were torn from houses and trees stripped of their limbs when a cyclone struck the Batlow district on Saturday afternoon…

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Cyclone Lashes Batlow Houses Unroofed; Trees Block Road

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 1

Roofs were torn from houses and trees stripped of their limbs when a cyclone struck the Batlow district on Saturday afternoon. The cyclone struck about four…

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60 M.P.H. Gales Sweep Victoria Telegraph Lines Down; Tides Enter Houses

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 July 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: Gales which lashed most of the State over the week-end tore down trees, blew down telegraph lines in the Alps, and battered the coast with heavy seas…

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Cyclone Strikes Batlow Damage Estimated at Nearly £3,000 Three Orchardists Hard Hit

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 July 1946 · page 2

A cyclone, extending over a narrow strip of country in the Batlow district at approximately 5 p.m. on Saturday last, causing nearly £3,000 worth of damage to three individual orchard properties…

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Heavy Storm Damage at Batlow

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 6

The violent storm in the Batlow district last Saturday caused widespread damage. Following a violent clap of…

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Flood Warning Received at Wagga Yesterday Tumut River in Flood Condition

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 1

A flood warning, has been received by the Wagga police which stated that the river at Tumut was 12 feet yesterday, and at Talbingo 15 feet…

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Tumut River in Flood Condition Farmers Warned to Move Stock

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 3

A flood warning has been received by the Wagga police which states that the river at Tumut was at 12 feet yesterday, and at Talbingo 15 feet. Farmers on low-lying country at Darbalara,…

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Murray in Flood About Albury and Wodonga Farmers May Have to Leave Properties

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 3

Flood waters on the Murray River flats about Albury rose steadily yesterday and are expected to rise another three feet. Several fanners…

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Serious Floods Feared in N.e. Victoria

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Northeastern Victoria faces a threat of serious floods within the next two days, following an unexpectedly…

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Cyclone Strikes Batlow

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 4

A cyclone over a narrow strip of country in the Batlow district on Saturday afternoon caused nearly £3000 worth of damage to three…

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Flood Threats Serious Tumut Area Menaced

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Wide areas of Southern N.S.W. are faced with serious floods threat, including the Tumut area, where many people are…

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Murrumbidgee River Rises Steadily Flood Position Taken Lightly at Tumut

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 2

Although the Murrumbidgee River has been rising steadily at the rate of about an inch an hour for 36 hours or more, there are so far no apprehensions in the minds of those who have made a study…

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Flooded Tumut River Now Subsiding No Danger of Murrumbidgee Breaking Banks Much Fencing Damaged in Darbalarabrungle Area

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 1

The Tumut River valley, which this week experienced its greatest flood in ten years, is covered with large sheets of water. Stock losses are reported to be negligible, but the damage to fencing is estimated to have been considerable. The flood waters are now receeding, a drop…

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Flood at Albury Record Level Since 1934

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 July 1946 · page 1

The flood at Albury is now greater than any since the Hume Weir was built. Last night there was 7ft 6½in. of water above the spillway of the…

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Flood at Albury Highest Level Since 1934

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1946 · page 2

The flood at Albury is now greater than any since the Hume Weir was built. Last night there was 7ft 6½ ins. of water above the spillway…

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